Olympics

People across the Web and around the world react -- mostly positively -- to the diving sensation's news that he's dating a man

Athletes and coaches, like Phil Jackson, MMA fighters and the Ole Miss football team, said and did really stupid anti-LGBT things this year. Here's just a smattering.

Despite saying that Fox isn't the better fighter and has disadvantages, Evans-Smith doesn't think Fox should fight women

Vitaly Mutko, the minister of sports in Russia, says his country should have waited until after the Olympics to pass anti-gay legislation because of the reaction from the West. "Perhaps the state authorities should have waited a little," Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko was quoted as saying by the RBK business newspaper on Monday. "It […]

Today's roundup of gay sports news hits a lot of different angles. Soccer Star Robbie Rogers — Dating the Guy Who Created 'Arrow' | TMZ.comL.A. Galaxy stud Robbie Rogers — the first active openly gay male athlete in major U.S. team sports — has got himself a boyfriend … and the guy is a pretty […]

Cahow opens up on life, sports and the LGBT community with GO! Athletes' Avery Stone, a hockey player at Amherst College.

"I can't shake the feeling that we've gone too far. Allies have raised our profiles beyond what is necessary to help the LGBT community."

It does take a bit of an ego and a ton of self-confidence to appear in front of a 30-foot high photo in one's underwear, but when you are Cristiano Ronaldo and are rich, famous and have that body, it makes sense. The soccer superstar unveiled his CR7 line of underwear Thursday in Madrid. Must […]

'An Orphan No More' tells the story of a father and an orphan who don't look the same.

College football fans don't need one day a year to dress up or go shirtless and paint themselves to show their school pride. From Florida to Oregon, a little body paint and imagination is all you need. More from Outsports:

Putin specifically welcomes people of any 'sexual orientation' to visit Sochi for the Winter Olympics

Charles Barkley has always made a ton of sense when talking about gay players in the NBA, saying for example that "every player has played with gay guys." So I was very interested to hear his take on the openly gay Jason Collins still being unsigned. He did not disappoint in this wide-ranging Q&A with […]

Students and national governing bodies hear about LGBT athletes, while the Warwick Rowing Club again gets naked to fight homophobia

The anti-gay laws in Russia and their relationship to the Olympics continue to be a major story: Olympics: Boycott won't help gay rights, say ski champs | GlobalPostBoycotting the Winter Olympics in Sochi would do little to help gay rights in Russia, the world's top skiers said, asking that sports remain free of politics. Sochi: […]

National Governing Bodies from dozens of sports participated in conversations about gender, disabilities and sexual orientation

Figure skater Johnny Weir made official what had been apparent since he said last month he would not be trying out for the U.S. Olympic team in Sochi, Russia — he's retiring. Weir, 29, announced his retirement at the same time he took a job as an analyst for NBC's Olympics coverage. Anyone hoping that […]

Harri Tikkanen is a 15-year-veteran in the Finnish Hockey League, the most popular sports league in Finland, and he showed his support for gay players by putting a rainbow decal on his stick during a match this weekend. This is the first time any Finnish athlete has displayed a gay rights symbol. It came after […]

David Kopay, Jason Collins, Brendon Ayanbadejo, Billy Bean and Kirk Walker joined other Angelenos Tuesday night in support of Olympic speed skater Blake Skjellerup

Amnesty International and GO! Athletes rallied to support LGBT Olympic athletes and Russian citizens

The German Winter Olympics team unveiled its uniforms in Dusseldorf this week, prompting one newspaper to label them "a cross between a pot-bellied pig and a parrot." Others saw the rainbow in them, suggesting they were a protest against Russia's anti-gay laws. Not so, the German Olympic committee said. The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), […]